15.1.11. crate_anon.anonymise.eponyms¶
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- Eponyms from 2018-03-27 snapshot of:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymously_named_diseases
Remember the following: - Patient names should be removed using their identifiable information.
This is just an additional experimental safety measure.
- The eponyms are removed from the name lists, before the name lists are used to scrub text – so we don’t scrub “Parkinson’s disease”, as an obvious example.
- Consequently, we can be quite liberal here. Including “Turner”, for example (a common UK name but also in Turner’s syndrome) won’t prevent a Mr Turner from being anonymised.
- However, the point is to scrub out some inadvertent names, so maybe not too liberal!